Film and Modern American Art: The Dialogue between Cinema and Painting

by Katherine Manthorne

Overview

Between the 1890s and the 1930s, movie going became an established feature of everyday life across America. Movies constituted an enormous visual data bank and changed the way artist and public alike interpreted images. This book explores modern painting as a response to, and an appropriation of, the aesthetic possibilities pried open by cinema from its invention until the outbreak of World War II, when both the art world and the film industry changed substantially. Artists were watching movies, filmmakers studied fine arts; the membrane between media was porous, allowing for fluid exchange. Each chapter focuses on a suite of films and paintings, broken down into facets and then reassembled to elucidate the distinctive art–film nexus at successive historic moments.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781351187299
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/30/2019
Series:	Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	164
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Katherine Manthorne is Professor of Art History at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center, USA.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I. TWO AMERICAN ARTISTS AND SILENT CINEMA; Chapter 1. Lust for Looking: John Sloan’s Moving Picture Eye; Chapter 2. Transforming Moving Pictures into Art: Everett Shinn, Artist on the Set; PART II. NEW WOMAN, NEW NEGRO; Chapter 3. Leading Ladies: Dance, Reform, Liberation; Chapter 4. Seeing in Black and White: Resistance, Rhythm, Renaissance; Timeline; Select Bibliography; List of Illustrations; Index

Editorial Reviews

"This lively study offers a fresh and provocative examination of the dialogue between art and the movies in the early modern era, a dialogue that, in catalysing new ways of looking, fundamentally transformed modern painting. Looking at many familiar subjects from fresh vantage points, Manthorne reveals how dramatically the new media shaped modern pictorial vision and the ways that painters both saw and represented the modern world and the American landscape."

- Sarah Burns, Indiana University, Bloomington

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